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Theatre Girls.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Kim Longinotto, Claire Pollack
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences.
- Sociology.
- Gender identity.
- Documentary films.
- Women's studies.
- London (England).
- Homeless persons.
- Housing.
- Alcoholism.
- Substance abuse.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (38 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- Royal Anthropological Institute, 1979.
- [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2025.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- The “Theatre Girls Club” is a hostel for homeless, destitute and alcoholic women in Soho, London. It is run by six paid workers and it is the only hostel in London which takes any women at any time. The filmmakers lived in the hostel for more than two months, establishing an extraordinary level of trust with their “cast” —from the home’s feisty cook to an elderly resident who was a terminal alcoholic. In what will later be recognized as a signature style, Longinotto films without judgement and finds the humor and humanity in situations and characters that might otherwise be seen as tragic.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Film
- In Process Record.
- Originally produced by Royal Anthropological Institute in 1979.
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